Television: Jun. 21, 1968

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Wednesday June 19

MR. 100,000 VOLTS-GILBERT BÉCAUD (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Sizzling Frenchman Bécaud, who often composes his own songs, sings his recent splash hit, Sound and Sea, in this international variety show. Also featured: Singers João Gilberto (Brazil) and Lill Lindfors (Sweden).

Thursday, June 20

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Call Me Bwana (1963). Bob Hope drops in the rough of an African jungle with Golf Champ Arnold Palmer. Anita Ekberg helps them caddie along.

DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Everybody, from Shirley Temple to Bonnie and Clyde, not to mention the Golddigger singing-and-dancing lovelies, is represented in this new variety series based on tunes and events of the '30s. Comedian Paul Lynde guest-stars, Joey Heatherton and Frank Sinatra Jr. cohost. Première.

Friday, June 21

THE NEW AMERICAN CATHOLIC (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The network's news cameras range far and wide, from an underground "action" Mass in Washington, D.C., to Oklahoma, where a group of former Benedictine nuns have transformed themselves into "Sisters for Christian Service," in this program delineating the new mood and trends of Catholicism in America. Bishop James Shannon of Minneapolis speaks for the church; other views are expressed by a variety of clergymen.

Saturday, June 22

CANADIAN OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). (Concluding on Sunday, same time.) The five finishing holes of the last two days of the $125,000 Canadian Open Golf Tournament, at the St. George Golf and Country Club, Toronto. Defending champion is Billy Casper.

Sunday, June 23

THE SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop.

Monday, June 24

THE CITIES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a three-part series (last two on June 25 and 26), Walter Cronkite reports on the urban crisis. In the first program, the attrition of a city is examined; the second focuses on the "Crisis in Black and White" and the third on ways to improve cities of today and in the future.

THEATER

On Broadway

JOE EGG. When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Beckoned to Elsinore they know not why, Tom Stoppard's neo-Elizabethan protagonists wander through historical events looking for significance and through their lives in search of identity. John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht share with the audience each nuance of meaning, each streak of mordant wit.

Off Broadway

MUZEEKA is a fable, contemporary in sensibility, modern in metaphor, and haunting in its humor. John Guare mixes whimsy and horror as his hero trips on the way to his destiny, lands first in the suburbs and finally in Viet Nam.